Norman MacCaig: When I was a teacher, teachers would come...

Quote	When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. Copy
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Quote: I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
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Loni Anderson
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I have an education...

Quote: I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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Talib Kweli
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I think once you're...

Quote: You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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Swami Vivekananda
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You have to grow...

Quote: I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Walter Dean Myers
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I read a lot...

Quote: If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
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Noam Chomsky
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If you are giving...

Quote: To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.
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Chris Raschka
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Quote: I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
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Leo Buscaglia
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I have been a...

Quote: I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.
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Jake Shimabukuro
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I thought I'd grow...

Quote: Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
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Alice Walker
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Teacher

Howard Zinn was magical...

Quote: What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.
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Saint Basil
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What is the benefit...

Quote: I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.
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Tyler Hilton
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Teacher

I was a good...

Quote: I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.
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Robert Winston
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I did not study...

Quote: Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
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Sidney Hook
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Everyone who remembers his...

Quote: I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
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Mathias Rust
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I had one companion....

Quote: The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
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Dan Rather
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The dream begins, most...

Quote: To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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Joseph Conrad
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To a teacher of...

Quote: I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.
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Brian Jacques
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I wrote about a...

Quote: My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
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Mike Krzyzewski
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My ambition in high...

Quote: I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.
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Tyler Labine
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I thought I would...

Quote: When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
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Brian Blessed
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Quote: Coach Dyer was a great mentor for me and a great teacher.
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Scottie Pippen
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Coach Dyer was a...

Quote: In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.
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Lucas Grabeel
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In high school, I...

Quote: I was fortunate and worked hard to graduate top of my class as a primary school teacher and receive the Vere Foster Award, which is the medal given to the graduate who attains the highest mark in teaching practice.
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Sinead Burke
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I was fortunate and...

Quote: Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.
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Bruce Rauner
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Many of us have...

Quote: In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.
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Ving Rhames
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In about 9th grade,...

Quote: I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
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Stephen Colbert
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Teacher

I used to write...

Quote: I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Nargis Fakhri
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I did a B.A....

Quote: I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
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Phil McGraw
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I'm embarrassed every time...

Quote: I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change.
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Randi Weingarten
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I've worked in public...

Quote: Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
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John Mellencamp
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